Listening Skills

The Listening Skills Resource

Listening skills are an important part of public speaking. Listening is an important part of communication.

Listening involves...

Hearing

Understanding

Judging

There are also various ways to improve the skill of listening. From the art to mastering the skill of listening, it will be covered here.

A thought to ponder:I never met a man who learned anything from talking. --Author Unknown

Good news...Thoughts travel through our minds almost four times as fast as the speech we hear. Listening is a skill.

Mastering the art of listening requires practice and development. As you listen, you will also be able to think about what you are hearing. This in turn will allow you to really understand it. The end result will allow you to formulate and give feedback to the speaker.

Are They Listening? Unlike hearing voices associated with mental illness, we have inner voices. Learning to make good use of them can improve our mental function. Recognizing these voices come from two different sides of the brain can enhance our ability to turn down the sound from one side and turn up the other.

While this may not seem as exciting as speaking, once you start on this journey and embrace this skill, you will be opening a world of wonder and enlightenment. Not only will you become acutely aware of when people are not listening, you will better be able to speak to their listening ear. You will better be able to reach them.